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How mph started their logo design journey

Company name

Overview

We are a kick-ass start up that creates software tools to make gaming more fun and involved.Your logo will be the first step in helping us define a graphical style for our company.

Tell us a bit about who you are and the people you reach

Our desired audience are people who play multi-player computer games, ages 18-35, social media savvy, and mostly male.

Requirements

The logo should feature stylized lynx imagery and the text "GamerLynx.net".
We are open to clean, iconic designs as well as more dense complicated logos. One or more of these descriptive words should come to mind when viewing our logo: strong, fierce, energy, dangerous...
Our website will have a darker background. We greatly prefer original designs (please no clipart).

Any lynx depiction should not remind us of a high-school mascot (as much as we loved the Fighting Ferrets that isn't the look we want here).

Some *optional* ideas:

Fully natural lynx are a great design choice but we also have been toying with the idea that the lynx could be partially or completely bionic. If you decide to go the robotic route, care should be taken to avoid an overly cliche look.
Another thought: Lynx and "links" are homophones. In addition to a lynx, a network with links could be incorporated.

A goal we have for this contest is to provide feedback to every designer. Thanks!

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Here are some images we like (not requirements)http://gamerlynx.net/design/